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Experiment 5: RC Circuits Abstract The purpose of this lab is to learn and understand RC Circuits. An RC circuit is composed of at least one resistor and at least one capacitor. A capacitor is composed of two plates with either air or an insulator also known as a dielectric between the plates. We do…

With the advent of social media comes new opportunities for young people to communicate and express themselves. Through these channels, teenagers develop and mature in new ways that are not fully understood by many of the adults in their lives. By examining the development, behaviors, relationships, and attitudes of teenagers who use social media, one…

Under this perspective Domestic violence issues will be handled with immediate, hard punishment; more then likely incarceration along with possible No Contact Orders to protect the victim. Unlike the Crime Control Perspective, the Rehabilitation Perspective focuses the attention on the offender and not the victims. Supporters of this perspective believe that society is the reason…

Despite efforts to promote equality in the United States, there are still disparities in employment between different racial groups. Employers have a bias towards white candidates compared to black candidates. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has rules against employers asking for information that could indicate an applicant’s race (EEOC). However, employers continue to…

Alcohol and illicit drug consumption are all too prevalent today in high schools, colleges, and all across the globe. Students seeking to fit in or forget about the repetitiveness of school and homework have a tendency to experiment. Drug addiction is known by the scientific community to be a psychological condition based on excessive, obsessive,…

A variety of stereotypes are prevalent in today’s society, so of course there are gender-role stereotypes with the assumption males and females should each perform specific functioning roles in society which go back for many generations. Helgeson (2016) describes gender-role stereotypes as the features that society assigns to males and females due to social contexts…

Elton John, born as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, was born on March 25th 1947. He learned how to play the piano at a very early age. He left school at the age of seventeen to pursue a career in music. His father, much like Freddie Mercury’s, tried to steer him into a different career path. He…

An example of how a theory we learned about in the AIP readings has reflected in reality in the Women’s Center is a theory that was presented in the reading, “Age, Race, Class, Sex” by Audrey Lorde, Lorde asserts that “too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those…

The idea of racial profiling and collection or racial data by police agencies has become a hot button topic over the past several months. Recently here in the state of California, AB 953, The Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 was signed into law by Governor Brown, which required local law enforcement agencies to…

Euthanasia, formerly know as “mercy killing,” means intentionally making someone die, rather than allowing them to die naturally. In an online article by the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force says that euthanasia means killing in the name of compassion. Euthanasia is one of the most important public policy issues being debated today. The outcome of that…